Yarn on parade

The sky is filled with smoke and some days it just feels like everything weighs more. Today is one of those heavy days.

To counteract that today I have some little slices of happiness, or rather yarniness. I have some more new yarn to show you. 

I placed my second time ever yarn club order back in June. After I received my order from Teal Torch Knits I signed up for their Good Place (love that show) yarn club for July and August. Both skeins arrived safe and sound in one shipment. The top is A Little Bit Chowder and the bottom beauty is IHOP, Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes.

You can tell I am a bit more excited about the IHOP one. I think it is because I am loving having more color in my world now. My first order from them was mostly in the blue area so seeing what they can do with color is great. 

 

I have bought from Boss Kitty a couple of years now at Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. While looking through the vendors for this year's missed festival I remembered how lovely their yarn is. After much debate with myself I finally ordered Teatime for the Soul and Murder Mittens. Ok fine I will admit that I like the colors but I really loved the colorway names.

You know how it is when you debate over something and finally order it, and sit impatiently by the mailbox waiting for it to arrive? Even if it is only five minutes since you placed the order? Oh come on I cannot be the only one that does this... Anyways my order was delayed by a few days and I kept beating back that little voice in my head telling me to reach out and ask when it would be shipped. I figure we should really be giving people at least a week to ship stuff especially in the middle of a global pandemic. I kept shushing my whiney impatient voice. I told it to stop being a grabby child, especially since I had dallied about placing the order for over a week myself. Inner voices can be such pushy voices.

I'm very glad I did not inquire about the order since I received an apology note from Boss Kitty seconds after I received my shipment notification, well within a week of my order. They had an urgent matter that had delayed my shipment. Talk about good customer service and a lesson in how to be proactive in calming shipping worries during a tough time. Thanks Boss Kitty, hope your world is improving.

Anyways back to the yarn. I usually by sock yarn with every intention of knitting it into socks. I know that comes a quite a shock from a self designated sock knitter like me. But once I took a picture of the two Boss Kitty yarns together, they started whispering to me that maybe they should ba a shawl instead. I don't know if they would have enough contrast between them but I really like how they compliment each other. We shall see what the knitting decides. 

I seem to be on a shawl knitting trend now anyways. I'll show you those next time.

Keep on trying to be kind to each other.